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representatives of the two upper seams referred to on Crab-Apple Fork, in 
Washington. It may be that at other points in Sunbury they may be 
found of some value. 
At another place two blossoms of coal were seen on Piney Creek, one 
low in the valley, and the other one hundred and twenty or one hundred 
and thirty feet higher. It was impossible to determine their exact 
stratigraphical position in the general series. The inquiries made by 
Hon. Mr. Amos and myself in this township were not rewarded by any 
definite information respecting any coal seam of value. It is, however, 
not improbable that somewhere these high seams—generally thin and 
unimportant—may be found sufficiently thick for fee a and adequate 
to all local demands. 
SALEM TOWNSHIP. 
This township lies east of Adams, and has the Ohio River for its east- 
ern border. Sunfish Creek passes through the township from west to 
east, emptying into the Ohio at the village of Clarington. Possum Creek, 
which empties into the Ohio two or three miles below Clarington, drains — 
the southern part of the township. 
In descending Sunfish Creek the cement limestone, which is about 
eighty feet below the Woodsfield seam of coal, dips below the stream in 
the neighborhood of Cameron, in the western part of Adams township. 
From Windland’s Mill, in Center township, to Cameron, this limestone 
has been found to dip to the eastward nearly with the fall of the creek. 
But in Salem township, the fall of the creek, as 1t approaches the Ohio 
River, is probably less, and thus the cement stratum would have its place 
somewhat below the bed of the creek at Clarington. The Woodsfield 
coal should be about eighty feet above. We find a seam of coal at several 
points in the lower part of the Sunfish valley, which is the continuation 
of this seam. It is seen most distinctly at the bank of Jacob Mehl, a 
fourth of a mile up Negro Run, a branch of Sunfish, about a mile from 
Clarington. Here the seam shows the following subdivisions: 
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At Clarington the same seam is mined by Jonathan Jones, where we 
find the upper bench of coal one foot six inches, separated by an inch 
